Don't forget to check out the comments here in response to my poll about favorite spooky poetry. My friends have great taste, and there are some wonderfully haunting verses posted.

If you're looking for some appropriate holiday listening, the latest episode of StarShipSofa features Mike Allen's (time_shark)'s post-apocalyptic Lovecraftian Mythos tale "Her Acres of Pastoral Playground" (originally published in 2010's Cthulhu's Reign) as well as an interview with the author.

Text of the Day: Today's story is "Man-Sized in Marble" (1893) by E. Nesbit (1858-1924).

Excerpt:Although every word of this story is as true as despair, I do not expect people to believe it. Nowadays a "rational explanation" is required before belief is possible. Let me then, at once, offer the "rational explanation" which finds most favour among those who have heard the tale of my life's tragedy. It is held that we were "under a delusion," Laura and I, on that 31st of October; and that this supposition places the whole matter on a satisfactory and believable basis. The reader can judge, when he, too, has heard my story, how far this is an "explanation," and in what sense it is "rational." There were three who took part in this: Laura and I and another man. The other man still lives, and can speak to the truth of the least credible part of my story.